Built for Friendship

Am I worthy of love and affection? Most of us have pondered this question. Through the story of the Tower of Babel, Pastor Malcolm Marshall unpacks how we were all built for friendship. We each need mentors, mentees, and friends in our lives. We are relational beings with a natural, innate, legitimate need for authentic friendship.

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Malcolm, who grew up in Dallas but is originally from Las Vegas, did not have the privilege of growing up in Christian home. At the age of... read more

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Genesis 11:1–9

Universal Language, Babel, Confusion

1Now the whole earth used the same language and the same words.2It came about as they journeyed east, that they found a plain in the land of Shinar and settled there.3They said to one another, “Come, let us make bricks and burn them thoroughly.” And they used brick for stone, and they used tar for mortar.4They said, “Come, let us build for ourselves a city, and a tower whose top will reach into heaven, and let us make for ourselves a name, otherwise we will be scattered abroad over the face of the whole earth.”5The LORD came down to see the city and the tower which the sons of men had built.6The LORD said, “Behold, they are one people, and they all have the same language. And this is what they began to do, and now nothing which they purpose to do will be impossible for them.7“Come, let Us go down and there confuse their language, so that they will not understand one another’s speech.”8So the LORD scattered them abroad from there over the face of the whole earth; and they stopped building the city.9Therefore its name was called Babel, because there the LORD confused the language of the whole earth; and from there the LORD scattered them abroad over the face of the whole earth.

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